Combined skirt-supporter and placket-fastener.



No. 767,869. PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.

I GLEWELL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC- 7. 1903.

H0 MODEL.

IDJCQfOI w hfen eys UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

EVA CLEWELL, OF WILKESBARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 767,869, a e A g s 16,1904. Application filed December 7,1903. Serial No, 184,162. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EVA CLEWELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Wilkesbarre, in the county of Luzerne and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Combined Skirt-Supporterand Placket-Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to attachments for garments for fastening theplackets and suspending the garment thus connected from the belt orwaistband or from a shirt-waist, and has for its object to simplify andimprove the construction of such devices and to produce an article whichmay be readily attached to the garments and easily connected anddisconnected and which will hold the garments securely in place and notbe liable to disarrangement while in use.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction, ashereinafter shown and described, and specified in the clains.

1n the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which correspondingparts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is aperspective view of the device applied. Fig. 2 represents the threeparts forming the device in perspective and disconnected.

The improved device comprises three parts,

a plate for attachment to the belt or waist-.

band and two plates for attachment to the opposite flaps of the placketof the skirt or other garment to be fastened and supported, the twoplacket-plates adapted for detachable connectionto the belt or waistbandplate.

The belt or waistband plate is represented at and provided with means,such as spaced perforations, for sewing tothe belt or waistband 11 andformed with oppositely-extending spaced hooks 12 13, as shown, and willbe located on the outer surface of the belt or band opposite the placketof the garment which is to be fastened and suspended.

The placket-plates are represented at 14 15 and are precisely alike andprovided, respectively, at one end with elongated apertures 16 17 andadapted for attachment in reverse order, as by sewing to the oppositeflaps 18 19 of the placket of the skirt or other garment,

(represented at 21.)

.ments will be very firmly held closely united,

with no danger of displacement, no matter how severely the wearer maymove about or strain the body.

The parts will preferably be struck up from sheet metal of requisitethickness and strength and may be varied in size to suit different formsand sizes of garments.

The device supports the skirt or other garment and avoids all saggingand does not add materially to the expense or weight.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is l. A combinedplacket-fastener and skirtsupport, comprising a plate for attachment toa supporting-garment and provided with latorally-spaced,reversely-disposed hooks arranged in alinement, and plates forattachment to the opposite flaps of a skirt-placket, each plate beingprovided with an elongated aperture extending longitudinally thereofthrough which said hooks are adapted ,to project, one of the hooksengaging the end of one plate and the other hook engaging the end of theother plate.

2. A combined placket-fastener and skirtsupporter comprising a platehaving means for attachment to a supporting-garment and provided withoppositely-extending arms bent at an angle to said plate and havingtheir free ends bent to form reversely-disposedhooks,

a plate for attachment to the inner surface of end Wall of Which theother of said hooks en- 10 one of the placket-flaps and provided With angages.

elongated longitudinallydisposed aperture In testimony that I claim theforegoing as through which both of said hooks extend and my oWn I havehereto afiixed my signature in With which one of said hooks engages, anda the presence of tWo Witnesses.

plate for attachment to the outer surface of EVA CLEVVELL.

the other placket-flap and provided With an Witnesses:

elongated longitudinally-disposed aperture C. A. MCKEECHY,

through which the hooks project and with the DOLLY HOYT.

